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Re: Trouble debugging a Java Virtual Machine on Linux
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>, Jim blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Johan Walles <johan dot walles at appeal dot se>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:29:08 -0500
- Subject: Re: Trouble debugging a Java Virtual Machine on Linux
- References: <3C500AAC.5030709@appeal.se> <20020124122126.B26301@nevyn.them.org>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:22:52PM +0100, Johan Walles wrote:
>
>> Now, I'd like very much to get some input from somebody knowledgable
>> about gdb. First, is there already some simple way of interfacing with
>> gdb to tell it to use our functions for managing processes and not its
>> own? If not, does patching gdb seem like a reasonable solution? What
>> would have to happen for these patches to get accepted into the official
>> gdb?
>
>
> Oh, the other thing I meant to mention. For your last question:
> - the patches would need to be clean and not overly target-specific
> - the copyright on them would need to be assigned to the FSF. I don't
> remember the address to ask for paperwork - fsf-records@gnu.org?
FYI, in the cace of GDB, JimB acts as the assignments contact and
co-ordinates this.
Andrew